Damian wrote: > Scott Lawrence wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 10:11 -0500, Paul Mossman wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Can anyone think of a good reason to keep the Polycom "SIP > Settings > >> in DHCP" screen around? > >> > >> It is cumbersome to use with sipXecs, and I don't think there's a > >> good use case for doing so anyway. > >> > >> Basically, it can be used to configure the Polycom to get the SIP > >> server address from DHCP. It still requires Line configuration > >> (Username and Password), but if a SIP server is also > configured then > >> any DHCP value will be ignored. > >> > >> In sipXconfig all new Lines (Internal or External) must > include a SIP > >> server value. You can however go back and clear the SIP > server value > >> after the Line is created, which would allow a DHCP value > to be used > >> instead. > >> > >> There is no reason to do this for an Internal Line though, > because it > >> will only work if the DHCP value is always exactly the > same as what > >> sipXconfig would use. > >> > >> For an External Line it is even quite a stretch. If your > system has > >> Polycoms with External Lines then each is probably an exception, > >> rather than many using the same external SIP server. It seems > >> unlikely to me that an administrator would have a desire > to use DHCP > >> (instead of sipXconfig) to change the SIP server address that the > >> External Line on a Polycom registers with. > >> > >> I propose getting rid of this screen entirely. > >> > >> If there are no objections then I'll proceed. Let me > know. Thanks. > > > > I don't think there is any use for such a parameter in a sipXecs > > configuration. > > > > Make sense to me: yank it. So that means you are not taking > patch for http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XCF-1030, right?
Probably not, though I'd like to hear back from the originator before I close the issue. -Paul [email protected] _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users
